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Did you know that freshman tennis player Jarum Piatigorsky "alternates a tricky top spin serve with his vicious cannon ball?" (Run for your lives, run for your lives, Piatigorsky is lighting up his cannon!)

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Raising Rhubarb in the Year 1959 | 4/15/1989 | See Source »

On the flip side, Michael Townley (Jack Worthing) is almost unbearably stiff and stagey. Not only does he stumble over Wilde's (admittedly tricky) cadences, swallowing lines right and left, but he consistently hits the jokes on the off-beat.

Author: By Glenn Slater, | Title: In Wild Earnest | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

Smokestack chasing, as the practice of wooing factories has become known, is rampant in small-town America. Although often portrayed as a response to problems in the farming sector, in many cases the search is an effort to replace the industrial jobs lost in the 1980s, says Kenneth Deavers, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small-Town Blues | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

The personable Boskin was one of the main architects of Bush's flexible- freeze plan for cutting the budget deficit without raising taxes. To make ^ the freeze work, the Bush team would have to limit increases on most domestic spending to the inflation rate and at the same time boost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boskin: I Have a Lot of Strong Principles | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

The spellings are challenging, the pronunciation a little tricky, but it might be best to get used to these two names right now. They appear on the labels of some of the most intrepid clothes around, and they belong to two of the sprightliest newcomers anywhere on the fashion map...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Look on the Wild Side | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

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